freedom of speech little sound the freedom to crush. the week's headlines the number of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown in the east grows feeling unrest in several more cities in the region. to blame russia for the tragedy and the death as the southern ukrainian city dozens of anti-government activists killed in a deadly inferno and it clashes with radical extremists. should to death by the state of american prisoners suffers a slow painful execution as untested drugs are used for the lethal injection it's reignited the call for a moratorium now on capital punishment plus. court from iraq with bloodshed and civilian deaths continue to blight the country's first general election since u.s. combat troops moved out a poll to that shows no clear winner yet in. life

from moscow as kevin i am with you this very good evening to you just after ten pm here now this is r.t. international with our top stories of the last seven days and we start in eastern ukraine again tonight where a military crackdown on anti-government activists has been gathering pace all this last week at least seven people are now confirmed dead after saturday's fighting for control the city of kramatorsk one of the hotbeds the only going hotbeds of anti kiev resistance violence is also up to the cross of the cities in the restive region from where artie's paul asli a report. dramatic developments here in southeastern ukraine where the news is unfolding fost and furious if we start with the town of qana tosk which is around seventeen kilometers from where i am in savion there potest is all in control of

the central square but the rest of the town has now been taken over by the ukrainian army all the shops are closed and we know we receiving reports that some full factories have been shut down this affects the employment of some sixty thousand people who are now without jobs donetsk region is a region where all public transport has been shut down what this means is that nobody can arrive here or you from here using either the buses or the trains this is a weekend operation that took place it started on friday here in slavyansk it's affected kramatorsk it is falling here is announcement that it will crack down militarily against these and of protesters many of whom have taken up administration buildings in this part of the country in the city of new gun square now receiving reports of on the list photos to say that they are in control of the local military enlisted and officers and that they're handing out weapons but in a very controlled and organized manner they said that they doing this to keep order

in the city overnight there was also an raced in the town of mario poll we were talking to people on the ground who said that the military had entered the town the empty key of protesters were inside the administration building and they were telling us that they were being given orders to evacuate the building or else the military was threatening that it would fire on them despite this there is media outlets who are reporting that there is no military operation in the city and that all of this on race doesn't state merely being instigated by the protesters but we did speak to people on the ground and this is what they told us. that i'm in the center of the city there are a lot of ambulances outside the local administration building gunfire is being heard armored vehicles have entered the city and are moving towards the center people are going in there is well to prevent the soldiers from shooting we're hoping they won't shoot at civilians though from what we've seen before we're not sure anymore. if your armored vehicle started entering the city then the fire

erupted mercenaries or the ukrainian national guard opened fire aiming at people's heads there's no fatalities so far but i can't see anything about the number of injured right now police have returned from the scene where people in dark uniforms can be seen in other parts of the city. kid has announced that his military operation is happening and starting here immediate region but that it it will then instigate similar operations in other regions here in ukraine so certainly the showdown for further violence and clashes is being created or paula stationed there she is closely watching the situation in the region of dating all the latest for a twitter feed indeed one of the latest posts she says shooting no seems to have resumed near slavyansk a follower to keep up with the ongoing events there than. to be in the. for their part the authorities in kiev insist the military operation in east

ukraine is aimed against what they call terrorists holding the civilian population hostage well here's how some of those civilians greeted the army's arrival anyway. i. this was from a telecom toss similar seeds are taking place across the whole region in savannah's for example italy's pages of locals were seen trying to stop military vehicles with their bare hands at one point. nice of course has been tense for a while now but a tragedy that took place in the previously peaceful southern port of odessa sent shock waves worldwide dozens of anti-government activists were burned alive there on friday as a mob of radical nationalists firebomb the building they've taken refuge in reformation of centers this report from adesa you may find some of the pictures coming up disturbing. the adesa massacre as some already called in it

people were burned alive suffocated to death over shot and killed it has become one of the bloodiest pages in the city's history since world war two. the chain of events that led to dozens of das started with what has become includes new reality . clashes between the police and the country's current trainers ordinary residents and members of the so-called self-defense units and supporters are intended to keep including food choices and five members. of the bears that usually these clashes were peaceful sites managed the green without violence but the first start up for the violence and people lost their composure they were ready to go to the end of the end happened here in addresses trade unions house the epicenter of trade tests by supporters of the plains federalization this is where the so-called my

down accidents rushed and they were destroying and burning the activist towns many rent to hide inside the building it was meant to become a shelter to take me away for dozens after the building was set on fire. the coach to fan camps and blocked off all there to the building at the same time if the mode of hockey was along with the congregates in the windows this was nothing short of an execution mission where people were burnt alive now ukraine's a source she's for the first time since the crisis in the country started accused russia of being behind the violent events my with my more we demand that russia stop using terrorism diversion and as a military threat as a way of putting pressure on our countries cause a little bit in the russian president is dressing up his diversion squads in uniforms which cannot be identified because he wants to destabilize our country but in addressing. not all the residents agreed. they brought in the fuel cells from

the heart and right sector element my down cell phone transpersonal showed up at c.n.n. you know locals and i just i didn't know anything about it if they were all drinking and sound not in labor day going up it was all pre-planned and police were ordered not to interfere let me in you you wish to obey god it was until our local police arrived i was trying to read them through i doubt it was it or they were. that they are already writing a feature trailer and that water's here in that town i relieved friday's events that claimed the lives of at least forty people had shaking this usually lived back seater in southern ukraine and many unhealthy air it has made the gap between the people and the sorties to be at the breached while the pain will be too strong to overcome. from my desk. a little earlier the city in

a dress or run afoul of people gathered near the police headquarters demanding the release of those who were detained after surviving friday's fire authorities really like dozens of the anti go let it go this after the crowd of ten to storm the building which will get more updates twenty four seventh's from a dancer via twitter feeds itself to underscore. now moscow's pay the price of care fails to take control of eastern ukraine ahead of a presidential election at the end of this month washington and berlin say the unrest is russia's fault and they warn the next round of sanctions will hurt we cover that later in the program. i. next though a state execution went horribly long wrong this last week in the us a prisoner spent almost an hour injuring a slow agonizing death being given a lethal injection botched killing their first put america's death penalty back on

trial inmates are supposed to die within six minutes after receiving a lethal injection but that wasn't the case for clayton lockett he took forty three minutes to die gasping arriving in pain before his heart finally gave out report looking into these are tested drugs and know being used to kill the condemn it. america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes forty three minutes a van burst lines were closed because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the us the american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday oklahoma inmate clinton lockett died a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say

he was with the ring for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney its head and ears were totally tried to speak in lycopene arms while the first two were inaudible but the earth where you could clearly hear it work and. permits and it's based on. murder on part of it on your body shattered because according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals and as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions

in many cases officials refuse to disclose what struggles are being used and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by injection. gasping repeatedly as he laid on the structure in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and medical community doctors in particular are prohibited by their ethical oath from participating in executions in this way and one of the issues that's come up over and over again is whether the people who are actually administering the drugs in gauging the executions have the training and and experience to do this in a way that is consistent with our constitution oklahoma has granted

a two we call to all executions but in many other states critics say experiments on death row inmates will carry on marina port naya r.t. new york let's take a look for a minute showing how capitol postman's administered across the u.s. is allowed in thirty two states usually by lethal injection or electrocution other options include the gus chamber the firing squad even hanging but while the biggest concerns for prison companies is that one in twenty five executed inmates they think could well have been innocent but of course when they've gone there's no coming back they won't be authorities to be more transparent about who and how they killed. there's no question that bad things are happening or resulting from the use of these new and largely untested drugs that the government is not providing information on where they got them or in some cases what the drugs are the state purports that it is executing people on behalf of the public to keep the public safe as part of the the public criminal justice system and so on if that's the case

then the public has a right to know what is going on during that process so what drugs they're using and what the effects of those drugs are and where those drugs came from the notion that our government can execute people basically in secret using drugs that they're not disclosing where they got them from or what the drugs are is a great immoral issue of about one you shortly including a look at pre-election violence in iraq. i wonder if we still if you don't buy. the trailer i thought it was the. last place i don't believe by any means but. it is kind of the same cloth this is. who is totally powerful engine troll

meter in fact you may not be fully in charge. of her. for. her. audience in our. hearts. what if the public. like. a look at the ballot counting when a rush of this week's parliamentary election with michelle results showing no party securing a lead the vote didn't pass peacefully that at least

a hundred fifty people were killed as extremist groups carried out a series of nationwide bombings. next looks at whether this poll could in any way that herald a peaceful new chapter for iraq it's an election best described by the numbers. more than one thousand candidates are vying for over three hundred seats in parliament which will then lets the next president and prime minister some twenty one million a rocky start to vote in the first national election since. they look to all of us troops three years ago. but there are other figures to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in escalating violence and those displaced by war no single political bloc is likely to win a majority although prime minister nouri al maliki's state of law lines is expected to lead he's seeking a third term but it's hard to label the past few years a success moloch a had the country was sixteen percent unemployment widespread accusations of

political corruption and crumbling public services but the real concern catastrophic levels of violence that got worse in the run up to the vote campaign rallies targeted by suicide bombers both sunni and shia militias have been out for blood. voting has been cancelled in parts of western iraq the u.s. led invasion brought shiite majority rule to the country which had turned the anbar province into a focal point of sunni discontent when i was in fallujah at this time last year the province was in the midst of a political uprising and the demonstrators had been demanding the release of sunni prisoners they one of an end to what they saw as political marginalization of their sect these days it's a no go area. al qaeda linked group seize control of key cities provoking fierce clashes with iraqi troops the government hasn't been able to restore order and atrocities committed by both molecules forces and the militants displaced

a third of the population more than four hundred thousand civilians are now refugees within their own country it's hard to see a new path forward under the same government yet the opposition is too fractured to mount a serious challenge and regardless of who wins the vote is just the start of a long process it took months to agree on a coalition after the last election the same as expected this time around which means that iraq will have to wait even longer for the change it's so desperately needs to see catherine of. r.t. . as you can see when you look at the stats around two hundred people are killed in iraq every week as a result of sectarian violence since the beginning of the year four thousand people have lost their lives over these attacks that's the grim tally of twenty thirteen considered to be the deadliest for five years almost ten thousand. iraq war veteran peace activist michael prisoner told us the killings were a legacy he thinks of the u.s. military campaign in iraq this iraq had gone through this transition to

a perfect peace for united government they would still be faced with a very very difficult legacy of complete destruction of the country's infrastructure the toxic mike legacy of the teacher radium and things like that but are back cannot even begin to face those problems because their lives are still dominated by the violence of the war and the sectarian violence all the strafe we see today is a direct result of the u.s. occupation is the u.s. military didn't go to war against an enemy army the u.s. military went to war against a broad based national uprising against an occupation and so to fight it how does one exploit all of the ethnic and religious divisions they could find a few of them with violence and today we're seeing the aftermath of that. coming up the u.k. please get a slap on the wrist for brushing a large number of criminal cases under the carpet someone you want to check it out recent survey suggests as many as one in five crimes in britain go unrecorded all

the details on investigation are just a click away along with this to the u.s. putting is in flew across the pacific now striking a deal now to access military bases in the philippines find out why what the game plan is at r.t. the calm. amid all the accusations over new stirring water in ukraine the u.s. in the ear expanding sanctions against russia this week washington targeted seventeen russian companies and their own is all linked to president putin according to the white house for belgian parliament speaker a lot of annoyance believes moscow could react though this time there's no denying that these sanctions have some economic impact but i would certainly not vote for him to size them first so it's limited you should not forget that the sentence basically serve the public relations purposes here in the west where actually if you consider the gravity of the situation they're still quite mind which is not to

say that they are politically soon will it be very important and yes at one point i sure will have to we'll have to respond to the. german chancellor merkel's but the idea of more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders are urging him not to follow washington's lead their point is that the u.s. doesn't have relatively much to lose its trade with russia reached only twenty seven billion dollars last year while the figure for europe is four hundred ten billion according to government and business consultant crystal horst or any further restrictions will hurt all sides. nobody in the game can afford any of these things since they will hurt both germany for example is the biggest part of russia and russia is the biggest energy part of the whole europe so what's the use of anything since washington's idea in the europeans are not very much for that and

that means that there is a disquiet now a disagreement between the u.s. and the european union even if they come up with the same kind of sanctions right now. how far is the west ready to go well for more on the odds of broader economic sanctions been imposed check out r.t. dot com we'll try and find some answers for you. according cairo sentenced a hundred two supporters of the ousted president morsi to ten years in jail in the week they were accused of inciting violence and rioting following the military coup last july the ruling comes as part of a massive crackdown against the opposition launched by the military supported government ahead of this month's presidential election earlier this week some seven hundred people may in many of them from the pro morsi muslim brotherhood were given preliminary death sentences if the final verdict confirms that ruling indeed it would herald one of the world's biggest executions of recent decades way more than the number for instance content of death in iran during an entire year topping the

list of countries handing out capital punishment are iraq saudi arabia the united states china doesn't publish official numbers but amnesty international says beijing executes thousands of people every year as for the mass sentencing handed out in egypt's political activists are when i gave told us it's unlikely to quell the only rest anyway. it's easy for the preliminary sentence to be so harsh because it politically serves as an intimidation tactic by distaste towards the muslim brotherhood now this definitely has not deterred the muslim brotherhood from continuing their protests whomever will become egypt's next president will be faced with a virtually impossible economic situation the political continues political under us economy will continue to suffer a major blogs and any president cannot deliver economic services to a society which inevitably will continue the cycle of under arrest them violence.

latest round of infighting between rebels and eastern syria has killed sixty two according to a u.k. based watchdog sixty thousand civilians are for to be fled the war ravaged area to moderate rebels and islamic insurgents there been fighting each other now for months after capturing the region government troops it's estimated one hundred fifty thousand people have died in what is three years now of civil war syria. more unrest reported in yemen where officials say at least forty three al qaeda militants have been killed in heavy clashes with the army in the restive south a suicide bomber also struck in the same region that left six soldiers dead and wounded dozens more earlier this week yemen launched a full scale offensive to eliminate al qaeda militants who have repeatedly targeted civilians and security forces in the area. a fresh wave of violence in kenya with bomb attacks on buses have killed two injured over sixty of the capital nairobi instant follow saturday's deadly bombings which left four dead in the country's second largest city mombasa kenya seen

a surge in violence in the fight against militants in neighboring somalia twenty eleven. exactly twenty five minutes past. the choosing r.t. for your news euro viewership always appreciated after the break rate program was a part on the air investigating the personality profiles of dead dictators now that helps understand maybe the turmoil they left behind them. the american humanist association is really riled up over that one very famous chunk of the pledge of allegiance that was added to fight the communists in the cold war that says that america is one nation under god they claim that the inclusion of god in the pledge makes it seem like anything is that america art.

second class patriots and contributes to an atheist prejudices well this really depends on how you see the united states is it some sort of neutral ground where anyone with any beliefs can go i mean a lot of people did immigrate to the usa for religious freedom so in this case the word god needs to go or is the state's unique culture that needs to be assimilated into and their culture is ultimately present christian in which case the lord almighty must stay in the pledge i doubt that this philosophical argument about the nature of the united states will be solved any time soon although it would be really great if it was but if we think about it the us is a country of rugged individuals so can't patriotism be a bit individualistic yeah they may make you say the pledge of allegiance in school every day but you don't have to say the part about god if you don't want to well that might not see a view from pressure from your religious schoolmates but it will keep your conscience clean before the eyes of god or not god whichever you prefer but that's just my opinion.

and that's one of the things that has me so excited about bitcoin is that it's technically technologically beyond the control politicians and all in all it's can be a wonderful wonderful thing it's going to lift so many people out of poverty all over the world and if the politicians try and stop that that's on them that's then committing evil trying to prevent people from improving their situation in the world. hello welcome to worlds apart the twentieth century went down in history as any well political giant who almost singlehandedly it seems determined the face of that country's in both positive and negative place and while the march of democracy around a while the supposed to make politics last dependent on the whims of and. vigil

leaders why is politics still so have a leak personified well to discuss that i'm now joined by jerrold post director of the political psychology program at george washington university dr post thank you very much for taking time to join this program i really appreciate that my pleasure now i know that before joining the academia you spent almost two decades with the cia where you founded and directed a center that's was essentially responsible for compiling psychological profiles of various foreign leaders i wonder how prominent d.c. in those profiles were in influencing the course of american foreign policy at times the extreme are useful at other times the national interests and the nation is a rational national. takes dominance but particularly when there's a leader dominant society that's one personality profile. of extreme

importance such as was the case during the war with the with saddam hussein now i know that when you started all the way back in the and nine hundred seventy s. if i'm not mistaken i assume that they had the sources that you had access to were pretty limited you know some rare television interviews maybe some media reports probably some diplomatic cables but nowadays we know that. american intelligence agencies have almost unlimited access to all sorts of sources the n.s.a. can even listen to the phone calls of foreign leaders and has direct access to the e-mail accounts this is as close as you can get to direct observation i wonder if it made the job of political profilers easier or on the contrary more difficult because of all these abandoned sort of information and the second question would that also make those profiles more accurate it's a complicated question you're asking really there's almost an information over. a

load is what you're implying and for the most part these detail abs of asians are much less important from the perspective of the method i use of political person out of profiling than trying to understand the leader in the context of his life what were the forces that shaped this individual because one can have a very similar surface appearance but the leader may get there in a very different fashion depending on who is models the nature of his progress through adolescence and young adulthood these are all crew show and that's what we have to map out what shaped this man but on the other hand when you have. an opportunity to see how he or she reacts directly to any political challenge for example in the case with angela merkel days they say if you know if you can observe her directly all four of the period of eight years what and i'd be

more important than what really shake her by and large what we're trying to understand is what are the emotional levers what are the buttons that push this person to what degree is this person under full rational control to what degree is this person scarred by painful experiences may i give an example with saddam hussein absolutely go have i assessed him from my base at george washington university and one of the things i was very distressed by was that he was being called the madman of the middle east and i was really couldn't quite concerned that this misdiagnoses from my point of view was going to lead to really flawed decision making because he was a rational political cog who often miscalculated for two reasons one he had a very ethnocentric view of the world didn't really understand the west but more importantly he was. rounded by

a group of sycophants who toes are more he wanted to hear rather than what he needed to hear so it's very important in looking at a leader not to look at the leader as if he is running the country but he is a has a group of advisors a group. of a good artificial advisors it is the picture of the world that comes to him through them that's crucial and that's how we execute says policies and one of the things we learned with. was that he was consumed with his own grandiosity but underneath that he was extremely in secure if i could pick up on the point that you just mansion him having these vision of himself as one of the world's greatest leaders and i think in that profile that you mentioned which was written back in december of ninety ninety you mentioned that probably he's kuwaiti

adventure was you know a step towards achieving that goal you know putting himself onto the international stage and what we now know from the diplomatic cables is that he really try to sort of test the waters with the american officials and what he got from them is that they centrally told him that they're not going to intervene and some speculated that that was an indirect encouragement of his action i wonder if that is one of the goals of political profiling not only understanding where the leader is coming from but also influencing and manipulating his actions because you can argue that in sort of leaving saddam hussein to act on his ambition of becoming this next great arab leader the american officials got a pretext for attacking iraq later on militarily well the question of. put aside the question of a pretext for attacking iraq that. had

a very expansionistic view of himself but was prudent nevertheless and would not make any decisions that would. endanger him and had there been a clear day marsh at that time we cannot tell but one thing is certain for all those years he had seen himself as a powerful world leader but the world had for the most part ignored him until july of nine hundred ninety and it was when he invaded kuwait that suddenly his name was on every broadcast his picture was ablaze in the newspapers this with this was clearly a powerful world leader so i i see this in my psychiatrist terms as almost an explosion of narcissism at last the world was seeing him. he gave a guttural grunt and the stock market would drop two hundred points so this so that

this was part of what i was trying to communicate when i testified before congress about him that this man would not easily reversible so that dr post isn't it the case that both you and you know decision makers in washington knew about his violent tendencies beforehand i mean in your own profile you give many brutal examples of very harsh treatment of his own associates a supposedly the decision makers in washington learned about this tendency is not only on the eve of that war but probably during those times when they were assisting saddam hussein's regime in the iran iraq war so my question is really whether those. destructive tendencies could be seen not only as a danger to the country say national security but also as a as an opportunity to explore it and if so whether your profiles of those foreign leaders came with any specific recommendation of how to pull their strings

essentially well again i was not with the government when i did this profile and part of what i am for sized in my profile was that he could withdraw but only under two conditions a he could see a save face and b. if he could preserve his power and in the vent neither one was really possible in fact he believed that the united states suffered from a viet nam complex and should it get to the point where there were american bodybags being sent home again as they were in the vietnam war this would lead to a political protest and an impasse and he would have shown his courage by standing up to the united states superpower and now when i was reading some of those profiles that both. you wrote and some other researchers road what struck me is that. if they seemed to essentially start with

a conclusion many of the profiles of hostile leaders were hostile in nature while the profiles of american leaders for example the profile of. george bush sr reach was done by david winter of the university of michigan it was fairly. george bush sr was described as quote a peacemaker concerned for development and not prone to seek political answer through violence or war i think in hindsight mania i would challenge the accuracy of that description but my question is how the pound and profilers would be on the existing political realities do you have to take into account the specifics of american foreign policy essentially what i'm asking is whether you have to start with a conclusion about this or that man is an enemy of the united states and how would that influence the accuracy of your work than one certainly does not have to begin with such a conclusion no one is directing me as to what conclusions. to

have. is the best view that of that leader that our own leadership is trying to understand that's that's an erroneous misconception you mentioned in the beginning of the program that these political profiles are most important in case of leaders who dominate our societies but if we look at the establish democracy isn't for example the american democracy there were a number of leaders who are committed morally questionable things for example richard nixon to read his watergate engagement and his deliberate efforts to prolong the vietnam war i wonder if there was ever an attempt on the part of cia or any other our organization in the united states as far as you know to profile potential political candidates to see if there are you know personality traits make them fit for presidency i don't know. and. most all of my efforts have been devoted to profiling. foreign leaders and as i indicated to you i did not

wish to comment on american politics or policies but do you think something like that would be how full it is because i mean and nowadays it's a it's pretty commonplace in many fields to subject people to psychological profile . before hiring them do you think that would be how far in general for the hives both in the country i'm sure there is active. research during the during political campaigns and that's a that's a pretty. brutal contest in and of itself which it was shows the war it's beneath that political skin well this is a very politically correct answer we have to take a short break now but when we come back president assad of syria has long been relegated to the clouds of truth less bloody dictators on par with saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi dusty's psychological profile really fit that description

that's coming up in a few moments on all the part. i marinate join me on thirteen deaths impartial and financial reporting commentary interview and much much. only on bombast and on. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman i killed. piers later is when i got arrested. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about

polygraph results. innocent people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. i think. everybody. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of

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a discussing political psychology with one of the foremost experts in the field dr jerrold post dr post i would like to turn our attention to another leader whom you profiled in the past and who used to have almost unlimited power in his country and this is more margaret alfie and get out he has long been patrolling have long been portrayed in the western media as sort of a lunatic a person who is out of his mind but particularly during the build up to the syrian robert lee beyond revolution he was really a trade to somebody who totally lost his marbles i mean deranged leader who was sat on exterminating his country but in your profile of him back in march of two thousand two thousand and eleven you wrote that he was a rational leader who was under pressure but rushnell nonetheless i wonder why did you reach that conclusion well i would see him as having many circumstances where he was. resigning perfectly appropriately but there were

circumstances when he could become. distorted in his viewpoint and exaggerated in his decision making and there were basically two circumstances when he was not fully rational a when he was succeeding and you could get heady with success and get carried away and be when he was failing that may not seem like it leaves much territory but it does. so when he was being ignored he could be counted upon to create a crisis one point he talked about the line of death around libya and challenge the united states which was having maneuvers in the gulf of sidra to cross that line which we did they send up three sorties which were promptly shot down and he thanked the united states for making him

a hero to the third world he was highly identified with the underdog and and was supported terrorists hoops around the world because they were seen as representing. the underdog what was really important to understand during the crisis as it mounted was that he had identified himself totally with the country of libya so that the notion that he would go off to a happy exile someplace it was not to be and that was really important to convey he said and he meant it that he would go down to the last drop of his blood which made it very important that his generals the ministers working in his government. not be identified with him going to create splits between them to offer them

a safe safe landing and at the end he was almost totally isolated. other forces defected to the opposition and though that was really quite important to understand that dr post i think an interesting fact about gaddafi was i know that from my personal experience because i was on the ground in libya back in february and march of two thousand and eleven and i know that up until his ouster his government was paying salaries to police officers to doctors to teach very same been guys have been gaza that was already overtaken by protesters and they even took special measures. provides residents have been gazi with antiretroviral drugs reach doesn't really its credit for me with this portrayal of him as a ruthless lunatic i wouldn't see him as a ruthless lunatic i mentioned use a borderline person personality who is usually above the border but could have exaggerated decision making when he was either happy with success or when he was

failing and under grass of pressure that's when his decision making became distorted and now i think there is some commonality in the way this. authoritarian leaders are perpetrate in the west and specifically by american policy makers and they're usually portrayed as you know these madman the cruel irrational are you sad are aware that saddam hussein was called a madman more market off he was called nicknamed the mad dog of the east i think there are signs of that in the portrayal in the west and patrol of bashar al assad as well why do you thing. this pattern keeps occurring my own theory is that if you pre-treat the vans and those lies it's easier to justify the quick and speedy intervention but i guess you would have a different take on that well some of these leaders are ruthless dictators every

one of these leaders needs to be understood accurately in his own cultural. historical and political context and that explains a great deal of their behavior why did this society choose this particular leader at this point in historical time in many ways the leader is the creation of his followers and it's a mistake to just think of the leader as an isolated individual controlling a country he he he governs the country often with the consent of the governed sometimes as a dictator but but but more often there are many enthusiastic followers i think this is a very interesting point and one thing that all those three leaders that we just mentioned had in common saddam hussein moammar gadhafi and bashar al assad all three of them still to portray themselves as really standing up to american pressure american dominance and this may have been

a reason for them getting in trouble with the united states in the first place but both hussein and gadhafi are now gone but the antenna american sentiment that they exploited is still very much present and it is now be used by a different force religious extremists and i would like to ask you from a psychological perspective weren't those tyrants those. very brutal leaders were and they still a bit more predictable a bit more rational probably a bit more manageable than the wild force that came to replace them. sometimes indeed that is that is correct but i think it's important to make the following observation man is an enemy making species. we are really taught from childhood on who are our friends who are enemies and whom to trust and whom to fear

and especially at times of economic and social dislocation. in transition hate mongering leaders can mobilize their followers ship to. believe that it is the outside anime that is responsible for all of their problems and it has played very well historically if there was able to do that stalin was able to do that. well i think that's an escalator is very able to do that as well you know in fairness of course. and if one looked at the speeches of saddam hussein. and george h.w. bush during the first go through war the only thing that differed was the subjects and the objects god was on our side. of opponents was identified with the devil we were the great satan. to saddam hussein so this is deep within human psychology

and the need is to transcend that issue i would like to transition to yet another leader and this is president bashar al assad of syria i know that he recently part of published an article in which he had tried to analyze some of his. eternal motives and i think he tends to be lumped together with other dictators arab dictators like saddam hussein more market a few but i think one thing that distinguishes him from them and if you pointed it out as well is he's a bring both saddam hussein and more market out if he had very humble beginnings they were probably abused as children and that to some extent may have contributed to the our insatiable appetite for power but assad had a very different biography he came from a privileged background he wasn't groomed for power and you called him in the end you're our sicko a second choice son i wonder if we still if you still buy these patrol of assad as

ruthless murderer the butcher. are all five done after this how would be bringing explain does not endorse your viewers might be interested to know. john f. kennedy. former president outed states bibi netanyahu the prime minister of israel and bashar al assad all have one feature in common they were all second choice sons they each had a horowitz older brother who was the apple of their father's eye and each of them were forced to succeed the older brother as they play as the political leader and for assad he was a physician. training in ophthalmology when his brother died in an accident and he was summoned home to lead so i don't believe by any means that bashar assad is cut of the same cloth as his father who was

totally powerful in control later in fact one can make a case as my co-author with the purchase and i did he may not be fully in charge he his family is looking over his shoulder the military is looking over his shoulder and his younger brother my hair who is much more in his father's mode is in charge of security. the problem is he cannot really leave much as he might like to or it would mean the end of the b. of the assad regime occurring on his watch and part of what his challenge is is to. to try to find a way out of this conundrum but this is not like libya there's a large base of loyal syrian military and we have

a long ways to go in this struggle and there's no easy answer but dr post you. you mentioned it earlier about saddam hussein and more market off and i think we also can see that in the now a declassified political profile of idol hitler it's all those leaders had a very strong south identification of that country. there was this famous quote saddam is iraq iraq is saddam but when you look at bashar al assad he always makes a point about stressing the limits of his authority he always stresses in his interviews that he doesn't own the country and yet. these protests of him as these to rally collegiate or who controls everything in syria is very persistent it seems that the american policy makers and the western media in general a very bent on presenting him as a tyrant no matter what. i don't see him in the manner in which you're

characterizing him and i wouldn't touch people generically in the west in fact as i pointed out in that paragraph and as you emphasized in the special very interesting barbara walters interview he says i don't own the government i'm just the president and i infer from that that he's not fully in charge of the military as well so i don't see him at all as being similar to saddam hussein or or khadafi i think he's does not really have the skills or personality to be a totalitarian dictator and yet he's trying to hold on to the country to achieve the sure the feels a sense of commitment and it's a very difficult dilemma for him but isn't that then a part of psychological warfare that some of the western countries or maybe western

media waging because all we heard about a shot of assad and obviously he has many faults as a leader but putting that aside all we heard about him over the past few years is how ruthless here really is while in fact any leader in his position would probably react and behave if not in the same but in similar ways what i've tried to do in my own analysis is to have a differentiated. personality assessment so we don't fall into the kind of caricature is which you are attributing to western leaders i do not see him in the manner in which you characterize see him as trying to control the system that is not fully under his control not wanting to give up the assad regime on his watch but by no means being a totalitarian dictator having said that there's no shortage of brutality on both

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post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook news feed. week's headlines from r.t. the number of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown in the east grows feeling under arrest in several more cities in the region to. the time swiftly move to blame russia for the tragedy in odessa as the southern ukrainian city walls dozens of anti-government activists killed in that deadly inferno but also in clashes with radical extremists. should to death by the state of american prisoners suffers a slow painful execution is untested drugs they used for the lethal injection now it's rigged knighted calls for a moratorium on capital punishment plus. reporting as well this hour from iraq where bloodshed and civilian deaths continue to blight the country's first general election since u.s.

combat troops moved out a poll that shows no clear winner yet you've. just joined this morning kevin oh it's eleven pm here in moscow and watching r.t. international our weekly the round of the big stories of the last seven days starting in eastern ukraine no surprises there were a military crackdown on anti-government activists has been gathering pace this last week at least seven people are now confirmed dead after saturday's fighting for control the city of kramatorsk one of the hotbeds the ongoing hotbeds of resistance bottoms is also about to cross the cities in the rest of region two from where teams paulus leah and set up for us. dramatic developments here in southeastern ukraine way the news is unfolding fast and furious if we start with the town of

qana tosk which is around seventeen kilometers from where i am in slavyansk. they potest us all in control of the central square but the rest of the town has now been taken over by the ukrainian army all the shops are closed and we know we receiving reports that some fall factories have shut down this affects the employment of some fifty thousand people who are now without jobs donetsk region is a region where all public transport has been shut down what this means is that nobody can arrive here or leave from here using either the buses or the trains this is a weekend operation that took place it started on friday here in slavyansk it's affected kramatorsk it is falling here is announcement that it will crack down militarily against these and of protesters many of whom have taken up administration buildings in this part of the country in the city of new gun square now receiving reports of unrest photos to say that they are in control of the local military enlistment

offices and that they're handing out weapons but in a very controlled and organized manner they said that they doing this to keep order in the city overnight there was also an raced in the town of mario poll we were talking to people on the ground who said that the military had entered the town the empty key of protesters were inside the administration building and they were telling us that they were being given orders to evacuate the building or else the military was threatening that it would fire on them despite this there is media outlets who are reporting that there is no military operation in the city and that all of this on waste is instead merely being instigated by the protesters but we did speak to people on the ground and this is what they told us. i'm in the center of the city there are a lot of ambulances outside the local administration building gunfire is being heard armored vehicles have entered the city and are moving towards the center people are going in there is well to prevent the soldiers from shooting we're

hoping they won't shoot at civilians though from what we've seen before we're not sure anymore. armored vehicles started entering the city then the fire erupted mercenaries or the ukrainian national guard opened fire aiming at people's heads there's no fatalities so far but i can't say anything about the number of injured right now police have returned from the scene but people in dark uniforms can be seen in other parts of the city kid has announced that this military operation is happening and starting here in the din it's region but that it it well then instigate similar operations in at the regions here in ukraine so certainly the showdown for further violence and clashes is being created because policy is stationed there now closely watching the situation in the region for you updating all the latest for a twitter feed to one of the latest post she says shooting seems to resume is live and follow to keep up with all the latest events there on twitter.

for their part the authorities in kiev in sr military operation in east ukraine is aimed against what they're calling terrorists holding the civilian population hostage well this is how some of those civilians greeted the army's arrival. which as you can see is in keeping with the narrative that said here of saying in the town of chroma tosk similar scenes taking place across the whole of the region to incite violence is take a look at that for example locals were seen trying to stop military vehicles with their bare hands those pictures coming up now they go. east has been tense for a while now but a tragedy that took place in the previously peaceful southern port of odessa has sent shock waves worldwide dozens of anti-government activists there were burned alive on friday as

a mob of radical nationalists firebomb the building they took refuge in their financial centers this report from a desk you may find some of the pictures coming up are disturbing in the adesa massacre as some already colony. people were burned alive suffocated to death or shot and killed this has become one of the bloodiest pages in the city's history since world war two. the chain of events that led to dozens of das started with what has become increases new reality. clashes between the police and the country's current trainers ordinary residents and members of the so-called self-defense units and supporters of the interim government in kiev including food and choice and five members. of the bears that usually these clashes were peaceful sites managed the green without violence but the first start up for the violence and people lost

their composure they were ready to go to the end of the end happened here in addresses trade unions house the epicenter of trade tests by supporters of the plains federalization this is where the so-called my down activists rushed to me they were destroying and bertie the activist towns many rent to hide inside the building was meant to become a shelter taking place for dozens after the building was set on fire. the coach to fan camps and blocked off all there to the building at the same time a few more talk to us along with the congregates in the windows this was nothing short of an execution mission where people were burnt alive now ukraine's a source she's for the first time since the crisis in the country started accused russia of being behind the violent events my with my more we demand that russia stop using terrorism diversion and as a military threat as a way of putting pressure on countries cause

a little bit even within the russian president is dressing up his diversion squads in uniforms which cannot be identified because he wants to destabilize our country in a desa not older residents agreed. yes. they brought in the fuel cells from hartley and right sector i want to sell and transpersonal show data to you and you will know nichols and i just i didn't know anything about it if they were all drinking and sell not in labor day going up it was preplanned and police were ordered not to interfere in the letter when you knew which to obey god it was until the local police i was trying to read i'm sure i doubt it was a bit of a rare. prayer every friday be a joke trailer and that water's here in that town i really friday's events that claimed the lives of at least forty people have shaking this usually lived back seater in southern ukraine and many unhealthier it has made the gap between the

people and the sorties to be at the breached while the pain will be too strong to overcome. from a desk. or on the ceiling in a dress or under thousand people gathered near the place headquarters demanding the release of those who were detained after surviving friday's fire the saudis have already let dozens of the and to go but activists go this after a crowd attempted to storm the building of to get more updates from aggressive on twitter feed that's r t underscore. moscow could pay the price of care fails to take control of eastern ukraine ahead of the presidential election coming up the end of this month washington and berlin say the unrest is russia's fault and warn the next round of sanctions will hurt because of that later in the program. i.

a state execution in the united states went horribly wrong this past week a prisoner spent almost an hour during a slow agonizing death after being given a lethal injection the botched killing has put america's death penalty therefore back on trial inmates are supposed to die within six minutes after receiving a lethal injection but that wasn't the case for clayton love it he took forty three minutes to die gasping and writhing in pain for his heart finally gave. report nies been looking into these untested drugs the know being used to kill the cadet. america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes forty three minutes a van burst winds were close because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the us the

american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday oklahoma inmate clinton lockett died a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say he was withering for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney its head and ears were really tried to speak in like a few numbers while the first two were inaudible but the third time he could clearly hear it work. and it's based on. quite a bit of a body shattered because according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart

trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals and as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions in many cases officials refuse to disclose what struggles are being used and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by injection. gasping repeatedly as he laid on the stretcher in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and medical community doctors in particular are prohibited by their ethical oath from

participating in executions in this way and one of the issues that's come up over and over again is whether the people who are actually administering the drugs in gauging the executions have the training and and experience to do this in a way that is consistent with our constitution oklahoma has granted a two we call to all executions but in many other states critics say experiments on death row inmates will carry on marina port naya. new york couple punishments administered across thirty two states in the united states usually the lethal injection electrocution are used but other options include the gas chamber maybe the firing squad even going in some cases but one of the biggest concerns for prison company in this is that one in twenty five executed inmates could well have been innocent and of course when the going is not coming back therefore they want the authorities to be more transparent about who and i know they kill. there's no question that bad things are happening or resulting from the use of these new and

largely untested drugs that the government is not providing information on where they got them or in some cases what the drugs are the state reports that it is executing people on behalf of the public to keep the public safe as part of the the public criminal justice system and so on if that's the case then the public has a right to know what is going on during that process so what drugs they're using and what the effects of the drugs are and where those drugs came from the notion that our government can execute people basically in secret using drugs that they're not disclosing where they got them from or what the drugs are is a great immoral issue evoking a lot of debate right now about we want you shortly to look at iraq's pre-election violence.

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the ballot counters on the way to rack up for this week's parliamentary election with initial results showing no parties secured and lead the vote to pass peacefully at least a hundred fifty people were killed as extremist groups carried a series of nationwide bombings. and off next looks at whether this poll anyway could in any way herald a peaceful new chapter of iraq it's an election best described by the numbers. more than one thousand candidates are buying for over three hundred seats in parliament which will then lets the next president and prime minister some twenty one million a rocky start to start to vote in the first national election since the look to all of the u.s. troops three years ago. but there are other figures to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in escalating violence and those displaced by war no single

political bloc is likely to win a majority although prime minister nouri al maliki's state of law lines is expected to lead he's seeking a third term but it's her. to label the past few years a success as a country was sixteen percent unemployment widespread accusations of political corruption and crumbling public services but the real concern catastrophic levels of violence that got worse in the one up to the vote campaign rallies targeted by suicide bombers both sunni and shia militias have been out for blood. voting has been cancelled in parts of western iraq the u.s. led invasion brought shiite majority rule to the country which had turned the anbar province into a focal point of sunni discontent when i was in for at this time last year the province was in the midst of a political uprising and. the demonstrators had been demanding the release of sunni

prisoners their one of an end to what they saw as political marginalization of their sect these days it's a no go area. al qaeda linked group seize control of key cities provoking fierce clashes with iraqi troops the government hasn't been able to restore order and atrocities committed by both molecules forces and the militants displaced a third of the population more than four hundred thousand civilians are now refugees within their own country it's hard to see a new path forward under the same government yet the opposition is too fractured to mount a serious challenge and regardless of who wins the vote is just the start of a long process it took months to agree on a coalition after the last election the same is expected this time around which means that iraq will have to wait even longer for the change that so desperately needs to see catherine of r.t. . expression when you look at the stats around two hundred people were killed in iraq every week as a result of sectarian violence since the beginning of the year four thousand people

have lost their lives in the ongoing attacks but softer the grim tally of twenty thirteen considered to be the deadliest for five years then almost ten thousand people died in iraq war veteran paysite chris michael prisoner says the killings he thinks are a legacy of the u.s. military campaign in iraq. iraq had gone through this transition to a perfect piece for the united government they would still be facing a very very difficult legacy the complete destruction of the country's infrastructure the toxic mike legacy of the future rainy and things like that but are back cannot even begin to face those problems because their lives are still dominated by the violence of the war and the sectarian violence of the strafe we see today is a direct result of the u.s. occupation is the u.s. military didn't go to war against an enemy army the us military went to war against a broad based national uprising against an occupation and so to fight it it had to exploit all of the ethnic and religious divisions they could find few of them with

violence and today we're seeing the aftermath of that the police going to slap on the wrist for brushing a large number of criminal cases under the carpet a recent survey suggests as many as one in five crimes in britain go unrecorded all the details of that investigation just a click away from us and the us president was that across the pacific now it's struck a deal to access military bases in the philippines what's the game plan find out why. they made all the accusations over who still are in water in ukraine the us in the e.u. are expanding sanctions against russia this week washington targeted seventeen russian companies in their own news all linked to president putin according to the white house for belgian parliament speaker load of an all still do see believes moscow could react this time. we'll certainly not deny that these sanctions have some economic impact but i would certainly not over them to size them first so far

it's limited you should not forget that these sanctions basically serve the public relations purposes here in the west where actually if you consider the gravity of the situation they're still quite minor which is not to say that they are politically soon will it be very important and yes at one point russia will have to will have to respond if the. german chancellor merkel's but there are more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders urging had not to follow washington's laid their point is that the u.s. doesn't have relatively much to lose its trade with russia originally twenty seven billion dollars last year while the figure for europe much higher four hundred ten billion according to government a business consultant christophe horsetail further restrictions will hurt all sides here. in the game can afford any of these things as they will hurt both germany for

example is the biggest part of russia and russia is the biggest energy part of old europe so what's the use of anything since washington's idea in the europeans are not very much for that and that means that there is a disquiet now a disagreement between the u.s. and the european union even if they come up with the same kind of sanctions right now so the big question is how far is the west very the go here willing to go well for more on the odds of broader economic sanctions being imposed or not to r.t. dot com we pick it apart. according to cairo sentenced a hundred to supporters of the ousted president morsi to ten years in jail in the week they were accused of inciting violence and rioting after a military coup last july but ruling comes as part of a massive crackdown against the opposition launched by the military supported government ahead of this month's presidential election earlier this week nearly seven hundred people many from the pro morsi muslim brotherhood were given

preliminary death sentences now if the final verdict confirms that ruling it would herald wouldn't it one of the world's biggest executions of recent decades way more than the number of condemned to death for instance in iran during an entire year topping the list of countries handing out capital punishment iraq saudi arabia united states to china doesn't publish official numbers but amnesty international says beijing executes thousands of people every year as for the mass sentencing handed out free gypped political activist ahmed agave says it's unlikely to quell the unrest anyway. it's easy for the preliminary sentence to be so harsh because it politically serves as an intimidation tactic by distaste towards the muslim brotherhood now this definitely has not deterred the muslim brotherhood from continuing their protests will become egypt's next president will be faced with a virtually impossible economic situation the political continues political under

us economy will continue to suffer a major blogs and any president cannot deliver economic services to a society which inevitably will continue the cycle of under arrest and violence. the latest round of infighting between rebels and eastern syrians killed sixty two coding to the u.k. based watchdog sixty thousand civilians have reportedly fled the war ravaged area and moderate rebels and islamic insurgents have been fighting each other for months after capturing the region from government troops it's estimated one hundred fifty thousand people have died so far in what is now three years of civil war in syria. and more unrest in yemen where officials say at least forty three al-qaeda militants have been killed in heavy clashes with the army in the restive south the suicide by a suicide bomber also struck in the same region that left six soldiers dead and wounded dozens more early this week yemen launched a full scale offensive to eliminate the kind of militancy repeatedly been targeting civilians and security forces in the area. in kenya

a fresh wave bothers for twin bomb attacks on buses that killed three and injured over sixty capital monrovia is to follow saturday's deadly bombings which left four dead in the country's second largest city. can you see the surge in violence since its army aided the fight against militants in neighboring somalia in twenty eleven . well the latest news twenty four seventh's ttyl come from us the next live update with me kevin zero in just over half an hour next an hour to international the good cop bad cop we explore the methods used by some american police whether they really help to reveal the truth. jeff or chapman from kansas is going on trial for murder but he is very afraid of

jury prejudice is it because the jury is full of racists or has some sort of vested interest in seeing him get locked away no it is because he is a jury tattoo on his neck of the word murder written backwards wiser and backward. so he could read it in the mirror. nowadays we live in a total culture of almost complete entitlement so naturally chapman wants to leave jail on a special trip to a tattoo parlor to get the ugly ink changed or removed yeah because he did something stupid his appearance now it is the obligation of the government to help him fix the problem he created often on these opinion pieces i am very critical of the government but this time the man is totally right you can't just take everyone on special trips across town so they can look good for their trial it isn't the state's fault that he has the word murder on his neck the prosecutors even said that chapman that it would be ok if he covered it up with something like a stylish skirt for dapper turtleneck sweater it is not the job of the government to help you get rid of your very stupid and very incriminating debt to

a fascist my opinion. war is probably the most complex difficult if. not. the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. kill a bunch of people. who want to replace every us people. reading. this some. shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it is because it was night time for the morning even the best even the best

soldiers. are going to make mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood in order. and camaraderie in this said. it was in this context that has absolutely no place. the video might be shocking but it's simply a ploy used by us police offices. filming with their own cameras they inform this woman called dalia that house bill is just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they suspect she may have hired a hit man to murder his spouse. like oh ok i'll try to cut. back. with the camera. but that.

in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse dalia what they want is a confession and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination of dalia that led to the truth and then eased the way to her prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation where everything might fall into place which explains why in the united states this method of investigation has been pushed to its very limits more than anywhere else in the world how does the interrogation take place is it an exact science can you tell when the suspect is lying and can you trust the confessions.

in the united states everything is aimed at making the suspect crack from the architecture of the interrogation room it's a small room that disorientate suspects and allows for physical proximity. police procedure. and you just know it's going to be a very unpleasant situation it's kind of like walking.

in there and it smells of fear. lingering. before depression. everything like that. and they said. but this time. the good cop bad cop routine i remember the. dark complected. and had a very. the other one is

kind of blurry my memory of him is blurry i think he played the good cop bad was the bad cop. introducing sergeant almost seven feet tall in his socks years of experience and not the kind of cop that's easily fooled he makes new bones about his tough questioning methods it's his whole. there is a certain amount of acting for being. for doing interviews and especially when you're in that role as far as a good cop bad cop. so for the most part one is consoling caring you know almost. even putting off the other detective to the suspect saying

you know he's he's a very mean guy he's a bad guy or whatever the case is trying to get closer with that suspect so hopefully this is suspect confides and quote unquote good cop. to phonies tof and for three days had constant learning drives the interrogators to destruction. she makes up stories about her movements shifts the blame onto others and dismisses the evidence that the police did give up. you get defensive and when you get defensive the detectives team to jump on that why are you defensive then do you think only innocent people when you're trying to you thinking in terms of i say yes i need an attorney then you're saying oh you're guilty so you need an attorney is that what you're saying so it's very. it's very difficult the last interview kind of switched where i was very direct i was very accusatory and i even stormed out of the room once again some theater if you will to try to create

a better atmosphere for the other detective he was very tall and very over you all the time overbearing and i can remember in trying to like get in my chair you know and maybe like i'm sick of this my r.d. be this far away from my face and i'm going to. and i just start saying anything else i could say. to me claims she acted in self-defense but it's an admission that. she never told the truth. that was that's basically the sum of it she never told the truth and even then they had so i've never told the truth. tiffany played down her part in the murder the fact she doesn't break down under the questioning of an experienced policeman shows the limitations of the good cop

bad cop method. so a far less theatrical technique is being adopted that has found favor with many american police. it's an approach left handed doleman fervently supports in july two thousand and six and murder rocks the usually quiet town of dover in new hampshire laura perkins is shot dead by have a star the woman with whom she lives from the start had a study claims it was self-defense off the lure of stab her in the leg left on i'm told and is put in charge of the questioning. look for another stoner laura perkins lived in the downstairs apartment heather had two children laura had basically an adopted child from a previous relationship that sometimes stay with her there too on the night in question they'd been arguing since three four o'clock in the afternoon until two

morning just constant arguing while constantly drinking everybody knew that had their head shot laura the question was always going to be what are the circumstances was this a case of an abused woman protecting herself or was this a case of an angry woman killing a girl for. the stones interrogation begins at six in the morning just a few hours off to the murder left on a don't takes have a stone into the room set aside for the purpose a cold stock room which meets police standards. so this is the interview room that we spoke to the stone that morning heather was seated here. our camera was behind this this window right here. today behind bars seven years on with short hair and looking tired she's barely recognizable. finally admitting she had not acted in self-defense. remarkably video of the

interrogation was made available something that in most european countries would be unthinkable. has lied to the police about acting in self defense. the police patiently let's have a present her version of events. she was born to for a couple reasons one she really had an obligation to provide an explanation as to why her girlfriend is dead on the floor so she has a motivation to tell us something even if it's

a lie she has motivation to talk to us she's vulnerable because she's tired she's vulnerable because she's emotional can really is upset that this happened she's not a stone cold killer by any stretch. i don't really know what i was trying to do what i was lying. pot i mean part of me thought that. they believed me and part of me said no they won't the police believe there are certain facts that. they can turn to a proven tactic of gaining the trust of the suspect softening her up by taking advantage of one of the vices cigarettes. if you were a kid if it were but. you

will. get it this. she was surprised she was surprised that we were going to smoke in here because it's a no smoking building in a no smoking facility well whatever you know you want them welcome a small container if you're going to talk to us about this part of that just occurred i'm going to let you smoke and they let us smoke in return for information . however tries to evade the questions something that intrigues the police. we. couldn't really explain where she was and where heather was i mean with susan where laura was during this whole violent struggle that apparently had ensued so they were

skeptical they're also skeptical because the injuries she had were minor scratches to a leg not stab wounds or big slashes but just minor cuts to the leg. other claims laura made these wounds when she stabbed her. in fact it's a story suggested by joyce a friend she called just off to the shooting joyce also helps have a change the location of the crime to add weight to her assertion she acted in self defense. put rings on him punched me in the face and then i cut my leg. and we thought that would. get me so i wouldn't go to jail for.

serious topics of society where. people are going to be. locked up for this or teaching everybody. something no no law no weapons my. wife but. most of us think this setting all time. these cases have to eat moments. sometimes for nothing. this week and. it's not just the story will be just if you see the state eight new t.v. . but each other. that's

one of the things that had me so excited about bitcoin is that it's technically technologically beyond the control of politicians and all in all it's can be a wonderful wonderful thing it's going to lift so many people out of poverty all over the world and if the politicians try and stop that that's on them that's them committing evil trying to prevent people from improving their situation in the world. was. the police rather to provide more details and she falls into the trap when she tries to act out the scene. be sure. to stay doing this. i'm not going to this. she's thirty years. actually. years old and. the police want to force heavy into providing the exact details something they know

full well is a nightmare for those who are lying least ok sure is that. it. was her alone just to hear she get my flu. is that it is else so emotional that i couldn't even really grasp their questions or even answer them i was trying to but i was lying at first so they knew this so they were trying to get it out of me and i was. i'm so emotional that. even their questions were like spanish to me. they should c.n.n. just saying. this is going to do it. yes we need. a very very.

very. steering to. see this is the only bullet. the fact that she's tired probably made it easier for us because it was it's hard to keep up a lie it's very easy to tell the truth over and over and over again the tell the truth is the truth you just tell a story about what happened if it's the truth all you have to do is tell the truth over and over if you tell lies you have to work to tell lies you have to work to construct something that didn't happen. but after two hours of questioning the detectives know they're getting nowhere and move on to plan b. they put in the joyce is the friend who suggested the self defense ploy has confessed to everything. detective watkins and says listen george has already talked to us we already know everything that george has told us well we didn't know that joyce i've talked to joyce she'd like to now while we're talking to heather

will reinterview when joyce detective harrington who had been in here is now interview enjoys but we don't know what she said we're stuck in here with heather so that's a bit of that's that's quite frankly a lot. exhausted and betrayed by her own life have finally caves in after three hours. later that year to feel better. is there that i understand. one of the things i kept saying to her is she would talk about her children and she was afraid her children she would never see her children again. the children will grow up without a mother and my point to her was you know what's going to look better what's going to work better for you if you come in here and lie to us about this the death of your girlfriend or you tell us the truth. in the law.

i just figured this is it. and just tell the truth. and. then.

they went through a lie to get the truth. i went through a lot to tell them the truth i'd told them exactly. i told them. how i remembered it. but i wasn't in the right state of mind. so i don't even remember what i told them . the other says she has no regrets about having finally admitted the truth she still has twenty four years of a sentence to serve. it's every investigator's dream to get the suspect

to confess off the questioning the quest for the truth is a holy grail for every policeman and investigator. and since the one nine hundred thirty s. scientists have tried to create an infallible lie detector machine or polygraph. it detects human reaction through captors placed on the arms the chest the fingers and under the bus a. day remember. yes or no answer to question. were you born in the month of may. did you feel that watching the post. know. any abnormal physical reaction can be interpreted as a sign of lying. to find out more about

polygraphs which were considered to be a form of truth serum for so many years we seek the opinion of dave bryant a florida based policeman who specializes in they use. one of the people who did research on polygraph was the guy who is better known for creating the comic books wonder woman his name was marston he was a physician and he wrote comic books on the side and what's interesting if you know anything about wonder woman one of the tools that wonder woman had was called the lasso of truth where she would put a rope around the bad guy and and that caused him to have to tell the. troop well the lasso of truth that he uses is literally this the blood pressure cuff that we used today that goes around the subject's arm sort of a misnomer the instrument is a polygraph instrument it's recording physiological data it doesn't detect lies any more than cardiogram detects heart attacks it's up to me to analyze the data

that i record with a polygraph instrument to determine if the person is being truthful or deceptive as you see it rise to the line that's an increase in blood pressure ok so on this question here for example this was a controlled question this is a lie the subject answered no which is why there's a minus sign there and you'll see there's a rise in blood pressure very subtle rise in blood pressure but it's there it's clear to see when i put the line there there's a certainly an amplitude change here and also you'll see that his breathing changed from the normal respiration out here at this point he actually stopped breathing slightly during that question that's a controlled question that we know was a lie. brian defends the tool he uses for his work adding the majority of police departments and even the cia use the polygraph in europe however it's bad because of its own reliable results.

than is a law professor in chicago he's an expert in interrogation techniques and has been able to obtain the freedom of several suspects on death row life sentences often their alleged confessions he's one of the polygraphs fiercest critics. they hook the person up to this machine they tell them that this machine is infallible and it's objective and it's neutral it doesn't know you this machine it doesn't have any stake in whether or not you're in the center guilty. and when they fail that polygraph test or better yet when they're told they fail that polygraph test it brings them down to a place of hopelessness where it's easier to get them to confess and we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results and get innocent people to confess. knowing the polygraph is not always dependable scientists have

been urgently researching brain i and voice patterns instead so far without much success the human spirit seems capable of resisting even the most determined efforts to extract the truth. and to read a private company based in chicago that has set up a method based largely on human psychology. today it's the largest company in the world dealing with interrogation techniques staffed by former detectives it has trained almost three hundred fifty thousand police officers. the company uses videos to show the one thousand and one ways to make a suspect talk. let me ask you did you force her to have sex with you no absolutely not did you take the money from the man. a man i told you i had nothing to do with the saying ok you tell me dr. knot were.

read claims that offer its training programs police officers will be able to spot lies in almost eighty five percent of cases it's a remarkable claim but despite its apparent success rate the company has turned down all requests to be interviewed it might be because of steve driza and other experts who severely condemn its theories a simplistic and its methods as overly coercive. all the studies show that people can deception at rates better than a coin flip may be slightly better than fifty percent ok. they're leaving these trainings thinking that they can detect deception that eighty five percent that's just hogwash but it drives the interrogation in a way that it makes it much more likely that they're going to obtain false confessions. but reid has taken note of such criticism and has improved its methodology by all ski instructors to be more prudent when it comes to the signals

that could be interpreted as lying nevertheless the video still teach the same controversial process of recognizing lies through body language. a deceptive suspect may orient is body away from the interviewer in a. position posture is the rigid posture suspect the so preoccupied with his deception that he appears frozen in the chair and even unable to move the purpose of an interrogation unfortunately all too often is not about getting the truth it's about getting a confession so innocence is taken off the table and then over time the interrogator will give the suspect two choices one in which the crime that the suspect committed. portrays a suspect is a monster and another path the crime is accidental and over time after his

denials are rejected over and over again the suspect will choose one of those two paths because one of those paths leads to leniency and the other one leads to greater punishment. it's a choice that allows no room for the innocent and one that frank stirling to make more than twenty years ago. i used to. see a. deer and. just enjoy. nature. i don't know. two and a half years later i got arrested for. twenty eight years old. and spent . half years in prison. for a crime i did not do. ah

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think. over. that you know the prize is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crass cynical we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have five different feel ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. more

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in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. and that's one of the things that had me so excited about bitcoin is that it's technically technologically beyond the control of politicians and all in all it's can be a wonderful wonderful thing it's going to lift so many people out of poverty all over the world and if the politicians try and stop that that's on them that's them committing evil trying to prevent people from improving their situation in the world. right. first rate. and i think that you're. on a reporter's. instrument. the

week's headlines here on out the number of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown in the east grows fewer than on rest in several more cities in the region. meantime kiev lifted moved to blame russia for the tragedy in odessa as the southern ukrainian city mourns dozens of anti-government activists killed in that deadly inferno also in clashes with radical extremists. told to death by the state an american prisoner stuff with a slow painful execution as untested drugs are used for the lethal injection it's now reignited calls for a moratorium on capital punishment but. this hour we report from iraq with bloodshed and civilian deaths continue to light the

country's first general. lection says the u.s. combat troops moved out a poll that shows no clear winner yet you know there. are all. good morning live from moscow just stuff midnight is kevin owen here on out international and this is the weekly roundup of the big stories that shape the past seven days and one big story dominating of course we're starting with at this hour two we start in eastern ukraine where a military crackdown on anti-government activists has been gathering pace all this last week at least seven people are now confirmed dead after saturday's fighting for control of the city of kramatorsk one of the hotbeds the ongoing hotbeds of anti kiev resistance violence is also wrote to the cross other cities in the rest of region from where paula slayer wraps it up. dramatic developments here in

southeastern ukraine where the news is unfolding fast and furious if we start with the town of qana tosk which is around seventeen kilometers from where i am in slavyansk all the shops are closed and we know we receiving reports that some full factories have been shut down this affects the employment of some sixty thousand people who are now without jobs denotes a region is a region where all public transport has been shut down what this means is that nobody can arrive here or leave from here using either the buses or the trains this is a weekend operation that took place it started on friday here in slavyansk it's affected kramatorsk it is falling fears announcement that it will crack down militarily against these protesters many of whom have taken up administration buildings in this part of the country in the city of new gun square now receiving reports of a list protesters say that they are in control of the local military enlistment offices and that they're handing out weapons but in a very controlled and organized manner they say that they doing this to keep order

in the city overnight there was also an raced in the town of mario poll we were talking to people on the ground who said that the military had entered the town the empty key of protesters were inside the administration building and they were telling us that they were being given orders to evacuate the building or else the military was threatening that it would fire on them despite this there is media outlets who are reporting that there is no military operation in the city and that all of this on race doesn't state merely being instigated by the protesters but we did speak to people on the ground and this is what they told us. that i'm in the center of the city there are a lot of ambulances outside the local administration building gunfire is being heard armored vehicles have entered the city and are moving towards the center people are going in there is well to prevent the soldiers from shooting we're hoping they won't shoot at civilians though from what we've seen before we're not

sure anymore. if you're armed vehicles started entering the city then the fire erupted mercenaries or the ukrainian national guard opened fire aiming at people's heads there's no fatalities so far but i can't say anything about the number of injured right now police have returned from the scene but people in dark uniforms can be seen in other parts of the city. kid has announced that his military operation is happening and starting here in the dinette region but that if it well then instigate similar operations in other regions here in ukraine so certainly the showdown for further violence and clashes is being created is to be based this is closely watching the situation in the region as it unfolds of dating on all the latest for a twitter feed and for one of the latest post she says shooting seems to have resumed earlier on this evening news for keep up to date with her than on twitter. the. for their

part the authorities in kiev insist the military operation in east ukraine is aimed against what they're calling terrorists holding the civilian population hostage but here's how some of those civilians greeted the army's arrival. which is not the narrative you're hearing from kiev this was filmed in the town of kramatorsk but similar scenes are taking place across the whole region these pictures now from surveillance because seeing the locals seemingly trying to stop the military vehicle with their bare hands in. the east has been tense for a while now but a tragedy that took place in the previously peaceful southern port of a desk has sent shock waves worldwide dozens of anti-government activists there were burned alive on friday as a mob of radical nationalists firebomb the building that they've taken refuge in refresh and sent us this report from

a desk may find some of the pictures coming up disturbing. the adesa massacre as some are already calling it people were burned alive suffocated to death over shot and killed that has become one of the bloodiest pages in the city's history since world war two. the chain of events that led to dozens of deaths started with what has become includes new reality. clashes between opponents of the country's current troopers ordinary residents and members of the so-called self-defense units and supporters of the interim government in kiev including food and choice and five members. of the best that usually these clashes were peaceful sites managed to agree without violence but the first start up through the violence and people lost their composure they were ready to go to the end of the end happened here in addresses trade unions house the epicenter of protests by supporters of ukraine's

federalization this is where the so-called my done accidents rushed to me they were destroying and burning the activist towns many rent to hide inside the building what was meant to become a shelter became a graveyard for dozens after the building was set on fire. neutralise the fan camps and blocked off all there to the building at the same time if the mode of cocktails along with stun grenades into the windows this was nothing short of an execution mission where people were burnt alive ukraine's a source she's for the first time since the crisis in the country started accused russia of being behind the violent events more were more and more we demand that russia stop using terrorism diversion and its military threat as a way of putting pressure on our countries cause a little bit in the russian president is dressing up his diversion squads and uniforms which cannot be identified because he wants to destabilize our country but

in a desk. not all the residents agreed. they brought in the fuel cells from hartley and right sector my damn self defense forces showed up do you think it will locals and i just said they didn't know anything about it they were out drinking and celebrating labor day it was all pre-planned and police were ordered not to interfere when you you watched what he was either until our local police. read them do and that was it or they were. very very tiny village of israel you know and that waters here in that town i really pride is events that claimed the lives of at least forty people have shaking this usually laidback city in southern ukraine and many here now fear that has made the gap between the people and authorities to be to ever be breached while the pain will be too strong to overcome

. from a desk. well an update from earlier sunday off the protest in front of the interior ministry building sixty seven and to government activists were released now we hear there are several hundred right sector radicals roaming the city streets first the group members hoisted the ukrainian flag was left of the burned trade union building and then that group of masked men are headed to the interior ministry radicals themselves say the fully mobilized and they say they're waiting for reinforcements to come from kiev and huckle stay with us and as we're keeping an eye on everything that's happening in the black sea resort city and elsewhere in ukraine as well. moscow could display the price of care fails to take control of eastern ukraine ahead of the presidential election coming up at the end of the month washington and berlin both saying the unrest is russia's fault and warned the next round of sanctions will hurt we cover that later in the program.

more the big news of the week a state execution went horribly wrong this week in the united states a prisoner spent almost an hour ensuring a slow agonizing death after being given a lethal injection the botched killing then is therefore put america's death penalty back on trial again inmates are supposed to die within six minutes after receiving a lethal injection but that wasn't the case for clayton lockett he took forty three minutes to die gasping and writhing in pain before his heart finally gave out when important there's been looking into these untested drugs now being used to kill the condemn it. america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes forty three minutes of being burst winds were close because

something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the us the american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday oklahoma inmate clean lockett died a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say he was with the ring for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney its head and ears were totally it tried to speak in like. the first two or inaudible but the birds are you could clearly hear him go to work. and it's based on. murder and quite a bit of a current body shattered because according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with

a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals and as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions in many cases officials refuse to disclose what struggles are being used and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by injection. gasping repeatedly as he laid on the stretcher in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and

medical community doctors in particular are prohibited by their ethical oath from participating in executions in this way and one of the issues that's come up over and over again is whether the people who are actually administering the drugs in gauging the executions have the training and and experience to do this in a way that is consistent with our constitution oklahoma has granted a two we call to all executions but in many other states critics say experiments on death row inmates will carry on marina port naya r. t. new york can put all punishments administer the cross thirty two states in the us usually the lethal injection or electrocution they use sometimes hanging maybe the firing squad other options include as well the gas chamber but one of the biggest worries of people is that one in twenty five people are executed could well have been innocent and of course when they've gone there's no coming back they won't be

authorities to be more transparent about who and i know they kill. there's no question that bad things are happening or resulting from the use of these new and largely untested drugs that the government is not providing information on where they got them or in some cases what the drugs are the state purports that it is executing people on behalf of the public to keep the public safe as part of the the public criminal justice system and so on if that's the case then the public has a right to know what is going on during that process so what drugs they're using and what the effects of the drugs are and where those drugs came from the notion that our government can execute people basically in secret using drugs that they're not disclosing where they got them from or what the drugs are is a great immoral issue much more to come here on the weekly including rocks pre election violence one after the break.

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post only what really matters out r.t. to your facebook news feed. hello again the ballot counting underway in iraq after this week's parliamentary election with initial results showing no party securing a lead the vote didn't pass peacefully at least one hundred fifty people were killed as extremist groups carted a series of nationwide bombings you see caffein off next looks at whether this poll could in any way herald a peaceful new chapter for iraq. it's an election best described by the numbers. more than one thousand candidates are vying for over three hundred seats in parliament which will then elects the next president and prime minister some twenty

one million iraqis registered to vote in the first national election since the withdrawal of u.s. troops three years ago. but there are other figures to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in escalating violence and those displaced by war no single political bloc is likely to win a majority although prime minister nouri al maliki's state of law lines is expected to lead he's seeking a third term but it's hard to label the past few years a success as a country was sixteen percent unemployment widespread accusations of political corruption and crumbling public services but the real concern catastrophic levels of violence that got worse in the run up to the vote campaign rallies targeted by suicide bombers both sunni and shia militias have been out for blood. voting has been canceled in parts of western iraq the u.s. led invasion brought shiite majority rule to the country which had turned the anbar

province into a focal point of sunni discontent when i was in fallujah at this time last year the province was in the midst of a political uprising and the demonstrators had been demanding the release of sunni prisoners they wanted an end to what they saw as political marginalization of their sect these days it's a no go area. al qaeda linked groups seize control of key cities provoking fierce clashes with iraqi troops the government hasn't been able to restore order and atrocities committed by both molecules forces and the militants displaced a third of the population more than four hundred thousand civilians are now refugees within their own country it's hard to see a new path forward under the same government yet the opposition is too. dr to mount a serious challenge and regardless of who wins the vote is just the start of a long process it took months to agree on a coalition after the last election the same is expected this time around which

means that iraq will have to wait even longer for the change it's so desperately needs to see catherine of r.t. . most especially when you look at the stats two hundred people are killed in iraq every week as a result of sectarian violence since the beginning of the year four thousand people have lost their lives in a tux that comes off the grid of twenty thirty that was considered to be the deadliest for years then almost ten thousand people died. michael prisoners says he thinks the killings are a legacy of the u.s. military campaign in the nation if iraq had gone through this transition to a perfect piece for the united government they would still be faced with a very very difficult legacy the complete destruction of the country's infrastructure the toxic legacy of the pleated uranium and things like that but are back cannot even begin to face those problems because their lives are still dominated by the violence of war and the sectarian violence and all the strafe we

see today is a direct result of the u.s. occupation is the u.s. military didn't go to war against an enemy army the u.s. military went to war against a broad based national uprising against an occupation and so to fight it had to exploit all of the ethnic and religious divisions they could find few of them with violence and today we're seeing the aftermath of that. revealing our law and the u.k. police getting a slap on the wrist for brushing a large number of criminal cases under the carpet a recent survey suggest as many as one in five crimes in britain go on recorded we've got the details of that investigation just a click away for to check it out while you're there to mull want to read this to us spreading its influence further across the pacific nw our deals been struck for access to military bases in the philippines what's the game plan we'll try and unravel it at r.t. dot com. washington stands firm that it's moscow that steering the rest in east ukraine the white house to use these photos of people it claimed were

russian agents even after the pictures had been debunked mosque has also been accused of manipulating data and propaganda and is going to church again finds out the claims more than a little dubious. secretary kerry keeps bringing up photographs which he says confirm the presence of russian operatives on the ground the state department saw the man the same bearded man now in ukraine and in georgia back in two thousand and eight then without any doubt came to the conclusion that it's moscow's hand they pointed at the bearded man in a group photo and claimed it was taken in russia among russian soldiers then the photographer of that very shot came out and said he in fact had taken the photo in eastern ukraine not russia anyway john kerry accuses r.t.u. of making false claims when fact checking is not exactly his department strong suit under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs which are stengel sort of followed up on secretary kerry's attack on our team last week where he called us

a propaganda bullhorn mrs dangle is accusing artie of making false claims and he gives examples he writes consider the way our team manipulated at least a telephone call involving former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko through selective editing the network made it appear that tymoshenko advocated violence against russia or the constant reference to any ukrainian opposed to a russian takeover of the country as a terrorist or the unquestioning repetition of the ludicrous assertion last week that the united states has invested five billion dollars in regime change in ukraine these are not facts and they are not opinions they are false claims well first of all on yulia tymoshenko who's leaked a conversation mr stengel accuses r.t. of making it appear that on board appear that mr washington advocated violence against russia you don't have to edit or manipulate anything when the person actually says that they can listen to every national program and she gets. younger usually if you choose to free you and you have to be movie if. you have the most of

the group at that very senior fellow said there's a vision of a pool in the case over five billion dollars invested in ukraine mr stengel makes it sound as if our teeth pulled out a mound out of thin air here's the. system secretary of state for european and eurasian where's victoria no one paid invested over five billion dollars to assist you train in knees and articles that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train and in our coverage will continue to challenge everything the u.s. says about ukraine because if you only listen to what the u.s. state department says you would have almost a stored understanding of what's going on there in washington i'm going to check out r.t. in the made to russia's foreign minister said western media as a crime propaganda over our t's coverage our coverage because of the competition we represent take on twitter a former u.s. ambassador to russia referred to out his growth as something to be scared about citing this graphics coming up now it shows how well various news outlets are doing

on you tube and r.t. much to washington despair is where is it read topping the charts well amid all the accusations over who's storing water in ukraine the u.s. and the e.u. are expanding sanctions against russia this week washington targeted seventeen russian companies and their owners all linked to president putin according to the white house anyway for a belgian parliament speaker loued of an os believes moscow could react this time i will certainly not deny that the sanctions have some economic impact but i would certainly not over size them those so it's limited you should not forget that the sentence basically serves the public relations purposes here in the west. actually if you consider the gravity of the situation they're still quite minor which is not to say that they are politically soon well it is very important and yes at one point russia will have to. respond to that.

german chancellor merkel's but the idea of more sanctions from moscow despite the country's business leaders urging him not to follow washington's lead their point is that the u.s. doesn't have relatively speaking anyway as much to lose its trade with russia reached only twenty seven billion dollars last year while the figure for europe is a whopping four hundred ten billion according to government and business consultant crystal horse so any further restrictions are going to hurt all sides here nobody in the game can afford any of these sanctions they will hurt both germany for example is the biggest part of russia and russia is the biggest energy partner of old europe so what's the use of anything since washington's idea in the europeans are not very much for that and that means that there is a disquiet now a disagreement between the u.s. and the european union even if they come up with the same kind of sanctions right

now. so big question just how far is the west ready to go or not well for more on the odds of broader economic sanctions being imposed or not go to r.t. dot com we'll try and unravel it for you. according cairo sentenced a hundred two supporters of the ousted president morsi to ten years in jail they were accused of inciting violence and rioting following the military coup last july the ruling comes as part of a massive crackdown against the opposition launched by the military supported government ahead of this month's presidential election earlier this week nearly seven hundred people many from the pro morsi muslim brotherhood were given preliminary death sentences now if the final verdict does confirm the ruling it would herald the not one of the world's biggest executions of recent decades weighed more than the number for instance condemned to death in iran during an entire year topping the list incidentally of countries handing out capital punishment iraq saudi arabia the united states to china doesn't publish official

numbers but i must international says that beijing executes thousands of people every year as for the mass sentencing handed out in egypt political activist act with no good told us he thinks it's unlikely to quell the unrest anyway. it's easy for the preliminary sentence to be so harsh because it politically serves as an intimidation tactic by the state towards the muslim brotherhood now this definitely has not deterred the muslim brotherhood from continuing their protests whomever would become egypt's next president will be faced with a virtually impossible economic situation the political continues political under us economy will continue to suffer a major blogs and any president cannot deliver economic services to a society which inevitably will continue this cycle of under arrest and violence in brief now the latest round of infighting between rebels in eastern syria is killed sixty two according to a u.k. based watchdog sixty thousand civilians portably fled the war ravaged area moderate

rebels and islamic insurgents there have been fighting each other now for months the cops in the region government troops it's estimated all in all one hundred fifty thousand people have died in what is now three years of civil war in syria. more unrest reported yemeni officials say at least forty three al qaeda militants have been killed in heavy clashes in the restive south the suicide bomber also struck in the same region that left six soldiers dead and wounded dozens more early this week launched a full scale offensive to try to eliminate al qaeda militants who repeatedly target civilians and security forces in the area focusing on kenya a fresh wave of violence there where twin bomb attacks on buses have killed three and injured over sixty in the capital my robey follow saturday's deadly bombings which left four dead in the country's second largest city of mumbai kenya seen a surge in violence recently since its army aided the fight against militants in

neighboring somalia in twenty level. it may two thousand and four the e.u. undertook its biggest single enlargement absorbing a vast area of the continent's east going since the course has been tough with stare at a recession unemployment all play their parts as well so was it worth it. next reports or what the people think. wild parties rocked ten european capitals in may the first two thousand and four as the e.u. became larger by ten countries for some of the new members like cyprus and malta this move had a purely economic motivations while for the rest mostly former socialist bloc states this was the chance to make a clean break from the communist past now a decade on these countries are looking at whether the e.u. accession really brought them joy poland is probably one of the happiest members of the e.u. to join in two thousand and four new road striking export figures and relatively

intact from recession mainly because analysts say war so kept its currency instead of euro and even a clear downside from e.u. membership the population after millions of skilled balls left to western europe once borders became obsolete is not a deterrent still more than sixty seven percent of poles are happy to be part of the union the situation is slightly different in the czech republic later sports suggest that thirty seven percent are not in favor of being part of the e.u. family way thirty five percent supporting it the rest are undecided this may be down to the czechs feeling better living standards have not come as fast as they wanted them to come and sometimes they also made their feelings known during. protests when washington was planning to place an anti-missile shield on their territory in opinion you can often hear in the czech republic is that they do not like brussels bureaucracy and being told what to do over the past five years hungary has been one of the most vocal critics of the european union particularly

its freshly reelected prime minister viktor orban there have even been suggestions voiced in budapest hungary could hold a referendum on exiting the union the reasons for such skepticism lie within the economy that well for two thousand and four the cheap goods flooded the market traditionally an agricultural powerhouse and many farmers lost their markets and means to survive. that happen is that their country being forced to pay for the economic. rubbles of the e.u. member states speaking of which one of the ten newcomers to the e.u. in two thousand and four cyprus is probably the least happy these are quite selling pictures from last year when the island suffered economic collapse and tens of thousands protested against the e.u.'s bail out plan which almost completely crippled the country's banking system a year on the island's economy is slowly recovering but the anger of losing a lot more money has not subsided among cypriots the two thousand and four accepted e.u. members are split about their decade within the family of twenty eight states not

all of them have perfect ties with brussels but ten years after the e.u. accepted stand new states in one swipe it's now a lot more careful when it comes to enlargement. it's midnight thirty two here in moscow break coming up after that you get up to speed on the week's business news with host katie pilbeam that's full of them produce news again with robert foster rapping on the latest world big issues this is a national. a pennsylvania widow had her house auction by her county's government for one hundred sixteen thousand dollars to cover the cost of an outstanding debt that she had that debt was six dollars and thirty cents yeah a debt the price of lunch took an old ladies' home away and there are two things that need to be said about this firstly private property is one of the pillars of western and especially american civilization private property means you can feel

secure in your home under feudalism served didn't own anything they were allowed to basically rent their land for their entire life to pay some leeching lord tells about the death of private property like this one makes you feel like you're going back into the dark ages should this woman's and all our homes be our castles even if we owe a stinking six dollars in debt secondly what is going on in the minds of the people who put this woman's home up for auction i could see if there were some kind of con men who get profit from the sale but these are bureaucrats this woman's home does nothing for them they get nothing out of it except the pleasure of doing it so i beg you if you work at some sort of government bureaucracy the next time an old lady is about to lose her house over six dollars just misplaced the file for a month or two is it really worth ruining the life of a u.s. citizen to give the government another one hundred thousand dollars to waste not at all but that's just my opinion.

right. now i. want it on. the side street. hello welcome to read capital with me casey this week germany japan teamed up with the u.s. state of the sanctions against russia on allies this new partnership on the economic implications of poles they are about signed off a seventy billion dollar logie craig was according to the latest estimate should

china is set to become the biggest economy in the world later this year portugal gets to break free from international financial support and to cut the takes us first but it will still corporate resolve coming up to. germany japan and now threatening. against russia german chancellor angela merkel and his prime minister shinzo abby were together in berlin this week both declaring industrial powers would unite together on their approach to sanctions this follows president obama's visit to japan where he reaffirmed his support for its rao audience with china meanwhile mosco house arrest and to retaliate against foreign energy companies if sanctions are heightened both the german and japanese leaders all chill on between punishing russia for what they see as the law for addicts of carmina on the protection of their economies especially and supplies from russia so first of all

let's get to the f.t. said to all of it all going to go to where our correspondent peter all of us is waiting for us so peter tell me you obviously we can see that what is the feeling there amongst the the business community in particular. well the business community of given anglo-american a clear message and that message is no further sanctions we've heard in the past week from some of the real heavyweights in the german corporate world the likes of be a s.f. the chemicals giant siemens the engineering organization for us in buying now they've all their concerns over potentially increased sanctions both privately as well as publicly now they all view russia as a very important market to expand their business in some of these organizations where they've they've put decades worth of ground work in to try and establish these links with russia and they don't want to see them destroyed by further

sanctions now to put into picture just how involved germany is. in russia six thousand two hundred german companies are currently operational that includes in russia operational in russia that includes that big household names that i mentioned as well as some smaller family run organizations that make things like machine tools tens of thousands of jobs could be at risk if the relationship between russia and germany economically was affected by sanctions and if there was to be say a catastrophic breakdown and not a relationship three hundred thousand german jobs completely reliant on trade with russia well the german economy has come out of the financial crisis as the main powerhouse in europe but if there was to be some kind of catastrophic breakdown in relations could see around two percent knocked off german growth next year and that could put the german economy on the cusp of a potential. potential recession so these are all very important things to be

looked at and these are the messages that have been given a miracle before she can try to make any decision of whether germany would back further sanctions against russia for big corporations that lost allays lots of jobs at stake. thank you think keeping us up to date. speaking to us from today. we're not going to get over to london and join brenda kelly from i g to see what the international markets make of all this we know that the relationship between germany and russia is very tight in terms of trade when it rained in on japan so now because interestingly enough since you have a as i say he was in germany but he's been very popular because of what he's done to the japanese economy he's pulled it back from two decades of deflation i would imagine the business community in japan as well might be quaking in their boots just now when they hear the word sanctions. i want to think once again for

actions of a lot of the sanctions there have been a visa rather than any real economic i can only. ones i've you know in some respects there is a very fine line that is a difficult task of striking a balance between standing by the u.s. which is obviously its main military ally i maintain it could really relationship with russia where in fact it was a huge amount of resources and it also wants to build relations with russia to ties with other neighboring countries like china and south korea have been strained before now as i said i think much of the sanctions from japan have been largely symbolic of course given how tense of the economic recovery there obvious facing he was not necessarily want to push things too far particularly since i think there's history there between russia and japan in terms of territorial issues there since nine hundred forty five or thereabouts so this is something that they would need to sign a treaty over so there's

a lot of history there but he probably won't want to force them too much on what do you make of the i.m.f. loan that's been offered to ukraine now it's been finalized the seventeen billion dollars design. of confidence about. well where you are really very much living in a fairly sort of world over the last few years and of course our promise of a bailout loan is just that and we haven't actually seen any pressing of a book where it's actually london to look out for ukraine just yet but it does seem like the i.m.f. are being quite supportive of ukraine because of course there is a lot of upheaval in the particular country only into this i mentioned sort of course the annexation of crimea so i feel you know from a financial point of view this is pretty positive but i'm not so sure that just a bailout is going to be the be all and end all to what's actually going on in eastern europe. as well and of course it's a risk for the i.m.f. as well because it is such a to most to us

a country at the moment so brenda kelly thank you for your time really appreciate about talking to us from the city of london id that now talking of ukraine let's just have an update on ukraine's finances and so as we were saying the international monetary fund will loan ukraine seventeen billion dollars now three point two billion dollars of that money will be dispersed immediately the rest will be handed out over the next two years while the money will be used to keep afloat as it continues to battle the escalating debts including gas bills to russia but i met chief christine legarde she acknowledged the program dolls pose a risk for the fund itself citing geopolitical tensions and potential difficulty for kiev to follow through on those conditions were certainly be watching the situation now talking of i.m.f. loans portugal set to follow island an exit is three year deal it was seventy eight

billion euro is they want to exit the bailout this month now the troika of international lenders which does include the i.m.f. of course as well as the european commission and the european central bank have advised port school to stay with the loan program until the economy is more stable but portugal's government is confident after some successful bond auctions that the country can finance itself from now on. according to the latest estimation by the world bank china is now predicted to overtake the u.s. and become the world's biggest economy this year the u.s. has held this position since eighteen seventy two now since the two thousand and eight financial crisis the chinese economy has made up a quarter of total global growth is a cool while according to the financial times the chinese economy may already be twenty percent larger than the official figures which means the country is already

the largest however when these figures are presented on a per capita basis the outcome is very different the united states emerges in twelve position and china comes in a ninety ninth place now the world bank figure shows that council is in the let's hope spot. now this corporate news which is about some of the stories that appalled my eye in russia this weekend. russia's biggest zinc plant like case in chile have been reported a loss of almost six million dollars in twenty minutes says the meteorite is partly to blame because of how this works on a company's one point five million dollars on damage caused by the space rock we've been on six hundred employees at the car giant ford plant in the leningrad region have agreed to leave the company employees were offered severance pay of up to five months pay which is actually about five and a half thousand dollars each production has been stalled for the past several weeks

due to boarding cells and a weakening of the rudolph. and russian coal mine a chill has reportedly holds that mining at its u.s. coal business. week price is all the problem the mine is halted production until market conditions improve the value of coking coal is at its lowest in eight . yes. ok let's see how tame kirby has been getting on you've been having an extremely successful time that you've had a couple of weeks haven't been so great because still why up in supposed to tear it in terms of money he went to achieve. some serious dairy action how does it pay off just like upon there will look to be unfortunately there's this website that doesn't really update as often as we but should called we could p.d.f. and unfortunately i didn't realize that wimbledon. no longer trades so we have to

take with them if we get out of here. i will spend with you get something and old vested for two weeks in a row to hopefully make up for things and you could maybe forgive me i've not going to give you we're going to get home by just. russia's largest lender and the only barry could russia that would give me a home loan which i still can't afford anyways so you don't care the look group that's a good big company can you forgive me ok let's get this straight we just need to clarify the fact that you chose a stock that is no longer trading but recently used to be ok and you just been buying pizza and having a jolly time if you know it is seriously to value let's be honest about this that a lot of money and i'm not very happy so you know while you're on suspension. come on. tim i'm not even joking with you you couldn't go on the bench for a wake you've got no you know shit is going to get a lot of my way. and i'll think about it i'm going to give you your

job back but as it stands he's got a lot of money and it's got to be taken more seriously chasing a start there's no longer trading is rather pathetic. so tame is being punished for his lack of professionalism this week instead because i have a little bit i'm up to on the site yes it is all my holiday special edition told me flat have a great week goodbye. actually what happened there i don't know but a woman killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about

polygraph results. in this and people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. he. looks at the middle east peace this afternoon news is proud of this tremendous chance to pollute the peaceful dr for the best way to stop this what huge much mistrust between netanyahu struggle reduced to the peace process with close.

to us the bible we now crossed over to gaza to check the props of the palestinians for clothes and books and to the love that you could see. me with the. boldness maybe you'd recognize israel and thing for you. i wonder if we still if you don't buy. the trailer i thought it was the most legs. to put all of this i don't believe by any means that bush. cut out of the same cloth as his father who was totally powerful. later in fact he may not be fully in charge.

dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world writes never. the old picture of today's events log on to sons from around the globe. looking. to. good afternoon prep news is back online today we take on another lives one of the most intractable divisive ongoing violent divides to happen in our time conflicts

going on but which is well and published on the one state to state or no straight solution to this protracted fight from camp david to majority topics also to kids back in time all peace talks of devolved into biden route to peace of lead nowhere but more war until now welcome to the us middle east peace talks this afternoon news is proud of this tremendous chance to produce the peace building to chart the best road map study so first up this way you can minister benjamin netanyahu should all be ready to engage the peace process with clive i mean rule rhymes all right well we'd like to bring the whole story to life please begin by telling us israel psychologists will rise to practice my people have suffered for tragedies centuries of persecution d.s. we were told of months ago sure you could try to have a white dog not but it doesn't so that's a problem a place to gather up some told us it was you do to others go to good because we think of yourselves like exodus king but what people hold that which is like that

which the lord said to just forty eight we declared the blood of the jewish state you will have indeed suffered massively unimaginably and should have centuries not just in the middle east where but to be how it is in the holy land holy also to christians and muslims how can you claim that only jews own the land in keeping with the six days we fulfilled outsiders took it to jerusalem the west bank good and gaza to go to the occupied territories in the seventh to come when all the world species witness this great event they condemned it it seems the un issued resolution two forty two calling on israel to give back those territories and george bush says they are you can. the legitimacy of the jewish state i'm just trying to produce about what what is good please guys are snots you ok ok just relax to hate to preach it to us the bible. to gaza to check the box for the palestinians such pleasure representing the love that you can see. with the ninety six votes this will be you recognize israel and sing for your. kids.

cool. now it looks more like. mr netanyahu you killed. it was in self-defense no it was just too close to show the news coverage for the us. your national assembly of tonight's headlines plus the strategy a good place for politics or maybe terrorists israel retaliates with their strikes it's self-defense in the west bank palestinian suicide homes are wrapping themselves into peaceful israeli bulldozers this well is under threat which is why it's shown on this map it's settlements studly expanded can we end this injustice to explain we welcome john kerry secretary of state great service back but you indulge your stress a bit american taxpayers have got israel covered too long because it has no country just for us foreign aid six hundred forty billion dollars since the seventy's plus

military weaponry no conditional strings with no conditions at all wrong preferred better if they could cut some using our money to build new to go said it was your second smoke no i was just sitting there but because you serve well right. we're getting a call from some jewish guy in brooklyn he's all plugged with of american troops he's flown to people who say you just heard him speak so low. you're on the screen this is norman finkelstein bring him to state the truth this case is still is a lunatic state it's no excuse to steal palestinian because jews suffer genocide you to lose innocent take. everybody this guy's an astronaut should be and they also can do mercantile see the funding to the palestinian territories ok fungal studies we get the gist of all this so we're where we see what crime the straight talk of the day covered by the pigs slipped away to start with legs were ok because to have israel's back that's true to the muslim backwoods that shares that you'd

better give this is a good local member to get tested loads to both the state and receive support for the soldiers leave israeli occupied territories to people who were supposedly colonists of the city to keep your eye on the streets and scarlett johansson and my real job is promoting illegal occupation it's easy you start by taking other people's land lists and things push the kids out of their homes cars imply check and look set to scream at you from israel and all of the flow. scojo looks delicious and let's keep reminding you about really old folks or red skin genocide or flavor of the american go to school. son israel is a settler colony like canada america. is in the area to

sail past the chestnut to get. a measure of what skill of the day i'm celebrating the day of the whales but you'll miss me it's roughly translates to a stride and what the sun back on fox legs the sweet soul of the puppy and of me not so much will ever leave the palestinians make it stay home and. celebrate this wonderful. place the smiling faces the. just like i wanted to know people in beijing and i was gassed up from the moment like. the bombs of a. cyclone. and we sing in defense of the. party with us now but does not. get into semantics thought for.

a moment this is far too complex plane if we don't like that. it's a tragedy how can we help you. simply to. figure out why you're. not. what. it seems that despite to use the right we fail to see the real peace deal between israel and palestine nevertheless i hope we've expanded our minds and if prepared to share some final thoughts before we go to the dogs this might seem like some battle and whining of the people in another time but it. is challenge to live side by side to raise flags on which invisible man we pray to in the sky and that is why they'll be peace nowhere until this peace in palestine is over if we want to live there was

pressure from outside that ended the crimes of the populace to turn terrorists into winners of the peace prize the question is can we learn history's lessons and apply them in our time as a direction it's clear where the answers lie does state hold the power to change the tide or is the one state solution for us to unify rather than if not just in the middle east but globally obvious why couldn't.

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the phone. i wonder if we still if you still buy. her trailer i thought it was the most let's . put char all because i don't believe by any means that bush. is cut out of the same cloth as is flawed. who is totally powerful engine troll leader in fact you may not be fully in charge.

of. the week's headlines here at the number of casualties from the ukrainian government's military crackdown in the east grows fuelling unrest in several more cities in the region. made top kids swiftly moved to blame russia for the tragedy in odessa as the seven ukrainian city mourns dozens of anti-government activists killed in a deadly inferno and in clashes with radical extremists. told should to death by the state of american prisoners suffer as a slow painful execution as untested drugs are used for the lethal injection its rig might have been calls for a moratorium on capital punishment. we report from a rat with bloodshed in civilian deaths continue to plague the country's first general.